Pith Number

pith:RVE3AYHN

pith:2017:RVE3AYHNC2Y4PYEFQGUOVV7NQY

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Verifiable Light-Weight Monitoring for Certificate Transparency Logs

Rasmus Dahlberg, Tobias Pulls

arxiv:1711.03952 v2 · 2017-11-10 · cs.CR

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RVE3AYHNC2Y4PYEFQGUOVV7NQY}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:02:13.171713Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8d49b060ed16b1c7e08581a8ead7ed860ec2ed68845323179f324b4629ae0957

Aliases

arxiv: 1711.03952 · arxiv_version: 1711.03952v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1711.03952 · pith_short_12: RVE3AYHNC2Y4 · pith_short_16: RVE3AYHNC2Y4PYEF · pith_short_8: RVE3AYHN

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/RVE3AYHNC2Y4PYEFQGUOVV7NQY \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 8d49b060ed16b1c7e08581a8ead7ed860ec2ed68845323179f324b4629ae0957

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "da925fa36632532e5295b03583571f76de98dedad7cb29c0c7f3aeb22d3f821b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2017-11-10T18:27:23Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6e320b22765adf42f1f77f3b03ffd9266daa4f9179de388df5d2cf760f205e6d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1711.03952",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}